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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: We know the arts play a crucial role in bringing communities and people together. We need an arts strategy that reaches into every corner of the country and, indeed, society. Planning and providing for the arts within the local communities for children is a vital part of building a strong and vibrant community. Strong supports for the arts at local community centres will create a space for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: There are wonderful programmes at work. We have seen the arts sector respond very creatively to presenting its programmes, be it virtually or otherwise. All of those programmes are extremely well received and vital to those communities, but the Minister should also look to those communities impacted long before we even heard of Covid, communities in disadvantaged areas. I am familiar with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I will ask this question on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Niamh Smyth. What plans exist to encourage diversity within the arts? I believe it is fair to say that all of us in this Chamber have missed the arts over the past 18 months. The artists were creative in every way they could be to try to engage with the public, however, be it virtually or otherwise. I commend the support of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I agree that diversity is very important. For too many communities, the arts are on the periphery rather than a core part of those communities. Diversity and inclusion should be the core values for how we view and support our arts. Diversity is important across arts practice in how artists make work and how people experience it. Importantly, support for cultural diversity within the arts...

Registration of Wills Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Restoration to Order Paper (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 198, the Registration of Wills Bill 2016 [Seanad], which lapsed on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil, shall be restored to the Order Paper at Second Stage. I rise to restore this important and eagerly awaited Bill, which has been in gestation since 2005. In restoring the Registration of Wills Bill 2016, I commend and thank former Senator...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I believe it is safe to say that everyone across Ireland is eager for the further easing of restrictions on Friday, 22 October. While the Government is pressing ahead and making every effort possible to encourage and restore the night-time economy, workers and customers will need access to public transport to get home after midnight. Will the Minister provide an update to the House on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the sports capital programme. [47460/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Enterprise Support Services (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on plans to develop a night-time economy. [47461/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of boats removed from rivers, canals and inland waterways in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; the process involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47676/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocations made to the four Dublin local authorities to fund the housing adaptation grant for older people and people with a disability scheme, and the mobility aids grant scheme, in each of the years 2016 to 2020, in tabular form; the allocation of same for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures that are being taken, under the new Housing for All plan, to increase the supply of housing for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47716/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all further educational institutes are required to devise and submit strategic and development plans for their campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to students who have recommenced first year at universities after difficulties with Covid-19 in 2020; if there is standard guidance to universities; if his attention has been drawn to reports of some institutions charging full tuition fees such as in the case of a person (details supplied) whereas others are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 541. To ask the Minister for Health if a new scheme will be considered as part of Budget 2022 to make a contribution towards or cover the costs of medical reports required for driving licences for persons over 70 years of age who have a GMS card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47718/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 614. To ask the Minister for Health when the contract management support units will be fully in place to support the various service providers across the nine community healthcare organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the preclusions, exclusions or implications that exist for parents who gift via inheritance cash or physical assets to their next of kin in cases in which the children are living with a significant intellectual or physical disability; if they risk losing access to HSE supports or other social services; the efforts that have been made to ease inequalities in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: 789. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the recent public consultation around the Control of Dogs Act 1986; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47675/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the guests and to those who are returning. My question is for the CRU and its opening statement on energy security, which I have raised previously with the Department and in the Dáil. The CRU said that delivering the regulatory framework to support the new interconnectors Greenlink and the Celtic link. What does it foresee as the stumbling blocks, if any, in that process?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: On that point, is that the consultation that closed in early July or am I thinking of the consultation on data centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms MacEvilly.